Research conducted by the Horticulture Crops Weed Science Lab is featured in the Winter issue of the Mint Industry Research Council’s (MIRC) Insight newsletter: mirc-ewsletter-winter-2024.pdf The article seeks to summarize research findings from 2023 and 2024 field trials evaluating peppermint tolerance to herbicides. Stephen Meyers was also invited to speak on this topic at the MIRC Annual Meeting on[Read More…]
Four members of the Horticulture Crops Weed Science Lab (Meyers Lab) presented their research at the 79th Annual Meeting of the North Central Weed Science Society in Kansas City, MO on December 10, 2024: Lidysce Mata – Evaluation of Tolerance in Jack O’Lantern Pumpkin to Group 15 Herbicides (poster presentation) Celia Corado – Potential of[Read More…]
Research conducted as Celia Corado‘s 2023 visiting scholar project in the Horticulture Crops Weed Science Lab has now been published in HortTechnology: Jack o’lantern pumpkin response to carfentrazone, glufosinate, and glyphosate applied to the distal portion of the vine. 2024. Stephen Meyers, Celia Corado, Jeanine Arana, Carlos Lopez, Lidysce Mata, Emmanuel Cooper, and Josue Cerritos.[Read More…]
Back to your regularly scheduled programming folks! Things have been quiet this week, in part because we got very on top of things for last week’s events (and needed a little bit of recouperation time), partially because Chris finally fell victim to the bug that’s been going around the Horticulture department. He had to be banished from[Read More…]
Valeria Fonseca Turcios is a new intern visiting scholar in Dr. Meyers’ weed science lab. Born and raised in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, Valeria is currently a senior undergraduate student majoring in Agribusiness Management at Zamorano University. She joined the Meyers’ lab to fulfill a professional experience requirement for her degree, but her motivation goes beyond that;[Read More…]
The Horticulture Crops Weed Science Lab welcomes a new member, Helen Nocito. Helen is from Winston-Salem, North Carolina and graduated from North Carolina State University with a bachelor’s degree in Plant Biology. She is interested in weed management and ecology, with a focus on horticultural crops. She joined the Meyers lab on June 3rd. Her[Read More…]
Members of the Horticulture Crops Weed Science Lab and the Specialty Crops IPM Lab published their collaborative research in HortTechnology this month. The team investigated the ability of black soldier fly larvae to reduce weed seed emergence in composts created from various substrates. Thank you to all those who helped with this project, including the[Read More…]
Stephen Meyers and the Horticulture Crops Weed Science Lab were featured in an article released on February 15. Thank you to Lindsey Berebitsky for writing the piece, Tom Campbell for the accompanying photos, and Joshua Widhalm for suggesting the story to AgComm. The article is available here: Returning to his roots: Stephen Meyers and the land-grant[Read More…]